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The Daylight Country
Literary queer vampire western · Novel · 78,000 words
Drifting ranch hand Jameson Hale hires on at Aspen Creek with a dead family behind him and everything he owns in one bag, and gets put on nights beside Callum, the best stockman in the county. He’s a quiet, exacting man the dogs won’t go near and nobody has ever seen in daylight. Then something opens the throats of cattle, and then of men, and the county’s suspicion hardens around the stockman. The crew arms itself, the sheriff keeps coming back, and the foreman starts asking questions Jameson can’t answer without lying. He lies.
Aspen Creek is the first place Jameson has ever wanted to stay, and Callum is the reason. For a hundred years Callum has made sure no one gets close, and over a winter of shared coffee and fence line and forty miles of night country Jameson gets close anyway, and before the next snowfall it will get one of them killed. It ends where it lived, two men together in the dark.
Comps The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and Lone Women, placed in the emotional world of The Power of the Dog
Little Teeth
Horror and thriller · Novella · 30,000 words
Serial killer Gideon Reeves recognizes something familiar in twelve-year-old Jimmy Hawkins, the makings of another murderer. When a botched robbery traps them in a small-town diner overnight with the boy Jimmy torments, Gideon starts teaching, and by morning he’ll know which of his students was worth the lesson.
Comps The Devil All the Time and She Rides Shotgun
See Something, Say Something
Horror and thriller · Novel · 50,000 words
In a fascist America where dissidents are caged in a human zoo, a father flees the Kingdom with the man he loves and the daughter he can’t bear to leave behind. The soldiers hunting them are the smaller problem. His little girl believes, and believers report.
Comps Chain-Gang All-Stars and The Dream Hotel
Cotton Candy Carnage
Horror · Novella · 26,000 words
Three urbex streamers vanish live on camera inside the carnival where four people died in 1990. A hundred and fifty thousand people watched it happen. Two hours north, a deli worker with a different name locks her doors, the girl who survived it the first time. Told in recovered footage, police files, Reddit threads, and a seventeen-year-old’s diary, it’s found-document horror about the case the internet won’t let die and the witness who never got to.
Comps Horror Movie and The Final Girl Support Group